A joint media project of the global news agency Inter Press Service (IPS) and the lay Buddhist network Soka Gakkai International (SGI) aimed to promote a vision of global citizenship which has the potentiality to confront the global challenges calling for global solutions, by providing in-depth news and analyses from around the world.

By Valentina Ieri
NEW YORK (IDN | INPS) - North Korea's nuclear ambition has not been checked effectively even though there were four resolutions of the United Nations Security Council. And North Korea's ...

... – or meet the escalating challenges of the 21st century – until all its people can achieve theirs. We are pleased to partner with the UK’s Department for International Development and the United Nations ...

... by volume were the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan. But Denmark, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom continued to exceed the United Nations’ ODA target of 0.7% ...

By J Nastranis
NEW YORK (IDN) - The United Nations Security Council has adopted a resolution on youth, peace and security, which for the first time in its history focuses entirely on the role of young ...

... in the COP21 Climate Change Conference in Paris November 30 to December 11 – the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC).
“We ...

By Tharanga Yakupitiyage
UNITED NATIONS (IDN) - Since its inception, the United Nations has highlighted people-centred development. This is echoed in the newly adopted Sustainable Development Goals ...

... goals include an ambitious target: the elimination of hunger and poverty worldwide by 2030. [P26] GERMAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF
But that elusive goal can be reached only if the United Nations ...

... migrate, be it within or outside the legal and institutional context of nations and unions, such as new routes navigated by human smugglers, speak of the degree of self-regulation at stake.
What involves ...

... of extremist ideologies, is not known. Nor does the 2015 Global Peace Index mention the number of women that fell prey to extremist ideologies.
But a global study released by the United Nations to mark ...

By Kanya D’Almeida
UNITED NATIONS (IDN) - By mid-2015, the number of young people between the ages of 10 and 24 stood at 1.8 billion, representing the largest youth population the world has ever seen. ...

By Fabíola Ortiz
NEW YORK (IDN) - The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is keen that member countries make Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) an integral part of their national policies ...

... nations to take responsibility for global warming and implement meaningful policies to reduce carbon emissions.
As Kiribati President Anote Tong has often pointed out, the Pacific region contributes ...

... have been set up by French NGO Electriciens sans frontières (ESF) in an attempt to heighten public awareness about climate change issues, ahead of COP 21, the next United Nations climate talks that will ...

By Fabíola Ortiz
UNITED NATIONS (IDN) - The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are all about “finishing the unfinished business” of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), says Amina Mohammed, special ...

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CAIRO (IDN) - One does need to think back half a century ago, to remember how much harmony and peaceful coexistence reigned in Arab countries between Muslims, Christians and Jewish. Nor does one need to recall how hundreds of Muslims gathered to protect Christians praying in their churches in Egypt during and after the 2011 popular upraising. Or how organised groups of Copts acted as a human shield to save Muslims praying in Cairo's Tahrir Square from extremists' attacks during the successive waves of popular protests.[P] PERSIAN (FARSI) | JAPANESE TEXT VERSIONPDF

UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - The future of religion in U.S. politics lies not with conservatives but rather with religious progressives, social scientists here are suggesting, with a faith-based movement potentially able to provide momentum to a new movement for social justice.

According to a new report from the Brookings Institute, a think tank here, the current religious social justice movement can be compared to the period of civil rights activism in the mid-20th century. [P] JAPANESE TEXT VERSIONPDF | SPANISH